Senior citizens play socially distanced carrom at a storeroom converted into a carrom club in a Borivali park.
Up until a stranger interrupted her with a stupid question about the park she was sitting in, Sharda Sharma was on a higher plane. Seated on a metal bench, Sharma was engrossed in a Hindi pocket book titled ‘Apni Khabar’ (Knowing yourself).
“We tend to know all about what’s happening in other people’s lives but we barely know our own selves,” said the bespectacled matriarch of a household of four who checks in on herself every evening by emerging from her domestic-help-less home few metres away and breathing “open air”, watching civilisation and hearing stray conversations .